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“The Journey” is an eight-part, eight-day series that takes you behind the scenes of the college football recruiting process as South Florida's best make the biggest decisions of their lives. To read other installments of "The Journey" visit SunSentinel.com/Journey. In the cut-throat business of college football recruiting, timing is everything. The process of evaluating, offering and signing high school prospects is a calculated science, and a poorly timed injury can easily end a college football dream. A trio of local high school athletes had their football lives put on hold this past year when an injury left them in recruiting limbo. While each is a...

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“The Journey” is an eight-part, eight-day series that takes you behind the scenes of the college football recruiting process as South Florida's best make the biggest decisions of their lives. To read other installments of "The Journey" visit...

UConn's Ryan Boatright isn't ready to give up on the idea of making it back to the NCAA tournament. Boatright scored 23 points and Rodney Purvis had a career-high 28 and the Huskies (17-11, 10-6 American) beat a ranked opponent for the first time this...

Spring football practice is in full swing for some schools across the country with others getting back to the gridiron over the next month.
The Orlando Sentinel is taking a look at some of the key storylines for the Group of 5 conferences like...

DALLAS The scripts for both Southern Methodist games were almost identical for Temple and so was the outcome. For the second game against the Mustangs, Temple couldn't hold a double-digit lead in the second half and ended up losing, 67-58, in an...

With Moody Coliseum mostly empty because of an early start and SMU trailing Temple in the first half, Ryan Manuel flashed back to the losing seasons from early in his career. The senior guard played a big role in a rally that was more like today's...

Kentucky had lost first-place votes here and there during the season, most recently to Virginia. With the Cavaliers' loss to Duke last week, there's little doubt which team is No. 1 now. The lone undefeated team in Division I, Kentucky is again the...

UCF sophomore guard Brandon Goodwin attempted to repeat his late-game heroics against Houston with two 3-pointers in the last four minutes to chip away at SMU's double-figure lead Sunday.
But for every Knights challenge, the Mustangs always had a...

Just 48 hours after Brandon Goodwin gifted SportsCenter with two 3-pointers to help UCF men's basketball defeat Houston on the road in a 79-78 overtime thriller, he was back in the gym practicing free throws.
He scored a college career-high 30 points...

The feel-good fuzzies after UCF's magical win in Houston earlier this week have all worn off for the men's basketball team. They've got bigger challenges ahead this month starting with a tough contest against one of the American Athletic Conference's best...

On this final day of the NFL season there is much at stake that will make for great appointment television. You want post-season scenarios? The NFL will deliver a plethora of them on Sunday.
The highlights: The Lions and Packers play for the NFC...

The toughest part of the UCF men's basketball has already begun. And it will definitely get more challenging Sunday when the Knights host SMU led by Hall of Famer coach Larry Brown.
Brown, the only basketball coach to ever win a NCAA title and NBA...

Not long ago, the New Jersey Institute of Technology was a college basketball punch line. The Highlanders couldn't win a game. They literally couldn't win a game. They lost 51 in a row before finally winning in January 2009, cementing their place as the...

Before they heard applause and celebrated big wins, several seniors on the UCF football team heard searing remarks from critics when they decided to sign with the Knights.
"When we came in, ... a lot of people doubted us," senior linebacker...

UCF senior linebackers Terrance Plummer and Troy Gray took one final glance around Bright House Networks Stadium as the clocked ticked down during the Knights’ 53-7 rout of SMU Saturday afternoon.
As the finality of their football careers at UCF hit...

The UCF football senior class that helped the school win its first BCS game and delivered some of the top academic marks in the country took its final bow before a season-low announced crowd of 30,920 at Bright House Networks Stadium Saturday.
The actual...

Each week our national college football writer describes how he would handle the television remote on the weekend, handicapping what's worth watching, and skipping:
FRIDAY
Houston (6-4) at Southern Methodist (0-10)
9 a.m., CBS Sports Network (CBSSN)
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UCF coach George O'Leary said senior receiver J.J. Worton suffered a career-ending torn ACL during the Knights' win over SMU last week. Worton received an MRI on Tuesday that confirmed the severity of his injury
O'Leary announced the news after the...

Mike Easton didn't have much to talk about going into the final home game of his college football career. That was a shame, since he deserved something for all the work he'd put in.
It was also fitting, since Easton could have made more plays than...

UCF senior kickers Shawn Moffitt and Sean Galvin did not play in the game against Tulsa.
The two kickers were suspended for one game, according to ESPN. It was not immediately clear why the kickers were benched. Moffitt and Galvin were seen in a photo...